2025 Best Marine Transportation Schools in the Great Lakes Region
1College in the Great Lakes Region
37Marine Transport Degrees Awarded
$63,712Avg Early-Career Salary
You'll be studying one of the lesser sought-after majors if you pursue a degree in marine transportation. It is ranked #283 out of 395 major degree programs in terms of popularity. As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.
There was only one school in the Great Lakes Region to review for the 2025 Best Marine Transportation Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Marine Transportation Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Marine Transportation in the Great Lakes Region
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the marine transport degree levels they offer.
Top Great Lakes Region Schools in Marine Transport
It's hard to beat Northwestern Michigan College if you want to pursue a degree in marine transportation. NMC is a small public college located in the small city of Traverse City.
Those marine transportation students who get their degree from Northwestern Michigan College receive $23,569 more than the average marine transport grad.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
